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TIL Bill Gates Has Donated More Than $50 billion to Charity

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v170j TIL Ty, the manufacturer of Beanie Babies, was one of the first businesses to use the internet to engage directly with its consumer market. This was a major contributing factor to the popularity of Beanie Babies.
J1ylB TIL that there is a Japanese fabric pattern called "Sayagata", a continuous pattern of diagonally interlaced swastikas.
XEeVX TIL before he was assassinated, Archduke Franz Ferdinand had plans to federalize his empire, creating the United States of Greater Austria.
Y71xx TIL the game of Go is so complex that the number of legal board positions, which has been calculated to be approximately 2.1×10^170, is far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, which is estimated to be on the order of 10^80.
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